@atax1a

Am I? I wonder.

@atax1a

Yeah, I know a little about how it hits you. And how you're at the farthest conceivable distance from being proud to be an American; to carry that nationality in your papers, I mean.

I was born in #Argentina. I live here. I have no wish or expectation to leave. Why the fuck do I keep tabs on US politics? Why do I have opinions about it?

Let me introduce you to the idea of America's backyard. Take your time. When you grasped the concept, you may want to read Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine too. Or Eduardo Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America (you may wan to skip Isabel Allende's foreword).

As @aral said a few days ago:

If people in the US have to worry about x, y, and z, you can be damn sure you’ll have to worry about x, y, and z soon enough. When the US coughs, the world gets ill. Just one of the many joys of global empire.

@atax1a

That graph (well, its existence) was more realistic than 90% of the shit you find in the typical datasheet.

@ariadne @dan

Can confirm, I had to run AutoCAD R12 with a coprocessor emulator on a 386SX/25. It didn't run at all, it crawled.

@pa @Tooden @adelinej @actuallyautistic

Great! I'm ready to keep playing whack-a-mole with the bastard until they give up.

@Tooden @adelinej @actuallyautistic

I reported the post, let's see how it goes.

@atax1a

Must be a shock actually being helped by them.

@adrienne @atax1a

Stop, please! You're one mutation away from the gotological and the comefromlogical planes. We are fucked enough already without two-dimensional flow control.